"Where am I when I'm not in reality…" — Andrei Tarkovsky

"Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?"

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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68 Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for…
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others…
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the…
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to…
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows…
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence;…
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could…
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining,…
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which…

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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